Posted
by
samzenpus
on Monday October 01, 2012 @04:44PM
from the best-in-show dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Back in May, I took a look at three cloud management platforms: RightScale, Scalr, and enStratus. Perhaps the biggest surprise was that people from two of those companies—RightScale and Scalr—took note of the article and replied in the comments, offering some clarification on their offerings. (And they were very civil: thank you!) What I'd like to do next is re-visit these platforms, but focus directly on the APIs that the three offer—not so much coding, but a high-level picture of them. How do they stack up? What features do they have? How do they fit with standards? And what can you expect from the long-term?"

What's the deal with dropping the last vowel of a word? Started by flickr, now followed by hipster software everywhere else.

Funny you'd mention that here on/.s 15th birthday. You know what stylistic counter-reactions are, like women's skirts being shorter means that later on they'll be longer and vice versa? Ironically, "last vowel DELETION" was a stylistic counterreaction to the trendy slashdot trend of INSERTING a letter c consonant as the second to last letter, as seen in in such famous examples as faceboock, amazocn, slashdot.cocm and most well known who can forget seeing pictures of the slashdot 5 year anniversary party